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CertifHy - The first European Guarantee of Origin for Green & Low Carbon Hydrogen Are you looking for Green and Low Carbon Hydrogen? Are you interested in using renewable energy in your processes and reducing your GHG footprint? Do you have to report on your hydrogen GHG emissions as part of a CSR strategy?

CertifHy – the 1st EU-wide Guarantee of Origin scheme for Green and Low Carbon Hydrogen – provides the solution!

What is CertifHy? Two labels are defined for hydrogen having a greenhouse gas intensity below benchmark by at least 60% (see figure on the • CertifHy Guarantees of Origin allow end-users to consume left bottom): Green Hydrogen or Low Carbon Hydrogen everywhere in • CertifHy Green Hydrogen if the hydrogen is made from the European Union; renewable energy; • Initiated at the request of the European Commission and • CertifHy Low Carbon Hydrogen otherwise. financed by the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU); What is the CertifHy Guarantee of Origin? • Developed with a wide-ranging number of stakeholders A Guarantee of Origin (GO) is an electronic document that through a consensus-based approach; guarantees and provides information to final consumers on the • CertifHy currently runs in the form of a pilot and the first origin of a product. GO schemes are in place in Europe for batches of CertifHy Guarantees of Origin have been issued renewable electricity, and in some countries also for electricity and are now available. from combined heat and power (CHP) plants, renewable heating & cooling as well as biomethane. It is already a legal Green and Low Carbon Hydrogen Concepts requirement to use GOs for making a claim on the origin The CertifHy scheme considers both the origin of the hydrogen electricity, and this obligation is being extended by the recast and its greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity in reference to a Renewable Energy Directive (RED 2) to other energy benchmark which is the GHG intensity production of hydrogen carriers such as gas and hydrogen. from natural gas. The CertifHy GO proves to end-users that the hydrogen is either Green Hydrogen or Low Carbon Hydrogen and provides information regarding its attributes, such as greenhouse gas intensity and plant place of production (see next page for further details regarding the information disclosed in a GO).

A CertifHy GO covers either hydrogen produced from renewable energy (bio, hydro, wind and solar) - deﬁned as ‘Green Hydrogen’ - or from non-renewable low carbon energy sources (nuclear, fossil with CCS) - deﬁned as ‘Low Carbon Hydrogen’. In both cases the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of the hydrogen considering the whole production pathway (“well-to-gate”) is below a set threshold (min. 60% below the production of hydrogen from natural gas). The CertifHy GO Scheme in a nutshell • Hydrogen that is consumed without being covered by a GO is considered to be from the “residual mix”, which • CertifHy Guarantees of Origin enable EU-wide is an attribute designating the combination of all the consumption of Green and Low Carbon Hydrogen hydrogen for which no GOs were issued (or for which regardless of the location; by using a GO, the GOs were issued but not used before expiration). corresponding quantity of hydrogen they consume acquires the properties of the hydrogen covered by the CertifHy GOs disclose GO. • The CertifHy GO scheme is managed and operated from a • Energy source of the hydrogen central registry that takes care of issuance, transfer and • Information on the plant which produced the hydrogen cancellation of a GO. (location, start date of operation, operator…) • The GO is cancelled upon use, so that it may only be used • Time of production of the hydrogen once for claiming hydrogen consumed as Green or Low • Green House Gas intensity (amount of CO2 equivalent Carbon Hydrogen. The provided electronic cancellation per unit of energy) of the hydrogen statement includes a link for on-line access to full GO content (see graph below). • Date of issuing of the GO

The CertifHy Process

The CertifHy Pilot The pilot is composed of four hydrogen production plants demonstrating diﬀerent hydrogen production pathways located throughout Europe.

SMR Port Jerome I France Water electrolysis I Belgium The pilot plant by Air Liquide produces The pilot of the retailer Colruyt Group Low Carbon hydrogen using steam produces Green Hydrogen with methane reforming with a Carbon electrolysis for their forklifts, heavy Capture unit or Green Hydrogen using duty vehicles and passenger cars. BioMethane as feed gas.

Chlor Alkali process I Netherlands Windgas Falkenhagen I Germany The pilot demonstration by Nouryon and The pilot by Uniper produces Green Air Products uses a chlor alkali process to Hydrogen from wind energy via water produce Green Hydrogen in Rotterdam electrolysis, that can be fed into the Botlek. natural gas grid or used as input for methanation. * [email protected] Stakeholder Platform Members

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